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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Amazing Mother Nature

I've been wanting to make a video of a sheep giving birth for a couple of years. I bought Julia a "Flip Camera" for a Christmas gift knowing I would have as much fun with it as she would!

Two weekends ago we were lucky enough to witness several sheep giving birth. This video is of an older cross-bred Romney ewe giving birth to a single, giant lamb. The birth took place over about 30 minutes but I've edited it down for you. Enjoy our little slice of rural life and the amazingness of Mother Nature.To see the video, go here.

Thank you so much for putting that together for us all!!! It was wonderful. I was so excited to show my children and now I will show my mom and sister. What an exciting time lambing must be! Although I know your husband will be glad for all the work of it to be over! Thanks again!

I am curious - just how big does a lamb need to be to be considered "huge"? What would be a normal size? Mom didn't seem to be in any distress during the birth even though her baby was bigger than normal.

It is amazing how the sounds, sights and smells of lambing days stay with you even if it has been seven years. I so very much enjoyed this video of ewe mama and her single "gigantic" lamb (memories of those too). Thank you from someone who has been there and witnessed lambing firsthand...a quintessential part of my past life that I wouldn't change for anything. You did a fine job, yes, a fine job indeed!

Wonderful video Kristin. That ewe looked very relieved to be done pushing out Lily. (Great name Julia!) I've never seen a lambing and this was wonderful to see - I've only seen kittens being born. The ending shot of the 3 lambs napping was perfect.SusanR

Hi Kristin ~How Cool! I ride horse and we have had foals at our barn! I love to watch baby animals being born! Julia might like my blog and I would love to hear from her!http://www.stabledays.typepad.comI will look at your blog tomorrow!have a great day.@raya

This is sooooooooo precious! And mama is just as precious as baby. She looks at the camera as if she's saying 'see what a good mommy I am?" A very good mommy indeed! The miracle of birth never ceases to amaze me.

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